With ongoing racial divides leading to rising tensions, it's important for us to navigate through this time Biblically. Join us this Sunday at 9 AM for an important and timely message from our Senior Pastor focusing on what's going on in America today.
“Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands) — remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household” Ephesians 2:11-19
Introduction: Today we address the difficult issue of race, racism, and a racialized society. It’s easy for anxiety to turn to anger and hatred. What’s the answer to racial injustice? At the risk of sounding trite, it is lodged deeply in the GOSPEL!